LORIN GRISET ACADEMY

GRADE 10 WORLD HISTORY

Mr. KHANG TRAN

khang.tran@sausd.us

Course

Students need to PASS this course in order to GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL:

10th Grade World History is NOT an elective. A passing grade in my class is 60% (D).

Grading

Compassionate Grading:

I am here to help my students succeed; NOT to see if they “have what it takes”. I will never tell a student to “just deal with it” or “figure it out”.  I will never assume that a student is not showing up to class because they do not care about school. There may be other more serious issues they are dealing with.  I will consider how to deal with lack of participation and/or missing work on a case-by-case basis. 

Process:

All my students will start the semester with full Process Points.  In my class, this means students: 1) completing my Daily Check-In Google Forms to let me know what they need help with or anything else going on that could affect their schoolwork, 2) completing my Daily Warm-Up Google Form activities, which are part of the lesson. These two tasks are each worth 5 Process Points for a total of 10 Process Points. Since Process Points are 15% of your grade, NOT completing the Daily Check-In and Warm-Up Google Forms can quickly bring down your grade. Check-Ins and Warm-Ups are due by the end of each class period. They cannot be made up unless I say otherwise under special circumstances. This usually means that I will excuse the Daily Check-In and Warm-Up for you if you were absent that day and the Attendance Office excused your absence.

Aside from the daily Check-Ins and Warm-Ups, each lesson will include at least one in-class activity that we will complete as a class which will be submitted at the end of the class period.

Assignments: 

I technically do NOT ASSIGN HOMEWORK. However, any work not finished in class should be completed after school hours. There are NO HARD DUE DATES in my class because my students have until the end of the quarter to make up any missing Assignments.

Assignments will come at the end of each lesson. All in-class Process activities build up to the Assignment for each lesson and are designed to help you complete that Assignment.

Again, Assignments are 30% of your grade. This means that it is possible to fail my class if students earn full points for all Assignments, but neglect the in-class Process activities, Quizzes, and/or Tests.

Quizzes/Tests: 

Tests are just the combination of the Quizzes for those lessons that are covered in the Test; all the same questions and answer options. For example, if Quiz 1 covers Lesson 1 and Quiz 2 covers Lesson 2, that means that Test 1 is simply Quiz 1 and Quiz 2 put together; Test 1 covers Lessons 1 and 2.

Quizzes are unlimited attempts, but Tests are only 2 attempts.

Again, Quizzes are 10% of your grade and Tests are 45% of your grade. That is why it is still possible to fail my class even if students earn full points for all Quizzes and Tests because this would be only 55% F. This means that it is important for you to study for tests by practicing with all the Quizzes and not miss any Quizzes or Tests unnecessarily.  

Class Rules

1. Respect Your Teacher:

My students should NOT interrupt my class without a good reason or disrespect me. For example: refusing to do what I ask, talking when I’m talking, etc. Respecting your teacher also means keeping my classroom clean.

2. Respect Each Other:

My students should NOT disrespect each other. For example: insulting their classmates' identities; disrespecting their classmates’ opinions, refusing to participate in assigned group work, assaulting their classmates, etc.

3. Respect Yourself:

Example: My students should NOT ignore their assignments, be off task, be afraid of asking me for help, copy answers from the Internet, be on their cell phones during class without my permission, etc. I believe that whenever a student does not try their best in school, they are only disrespecting themself because they either don’t feel that they deserve the best life possible, don’t believe they can have the best life possible, or don’t care about their own life.  School is NOT something that people should do in life because society says they have to; school should be taken seriously because it makes our lives and society better.

Consequences for Transgressing Class Rules

Cell Phones: 

Using your cell phones IN CLASS without permission while you are supposed to be working or paying attention cannot be tolerated. This is disrespectful to your teacher and also to yourself. This behavior encourages other students to be on their phones and not pay attention to what I’m saying. It also suggests that you don’t care about your own education as much as you should. 

All student phones will be placed in a numbered cubby in the back of the room. When each student enters my classroom, they will select a cubby and take the numbered slip of paper in that cubby. They will place their phone in that numbered cubby for the remainder of the class period until 2 minutes before the bell rings. Refusal to put your phone away in the cubby for the duration of the class period will result in a trip to the office and a referral for disciplinary action.

Talking During Class Without Permission

Talking during class without permission, especially when your teacher is talking to the class, is VERY disruptive. It is too distracting not only to me, but to the other students who are here to learn, recover their credits, and graduate. There will be only three warnings for breaking this rule. After the third warning, you will be removed from my classroom and sent to the office with a referral for disciplinary action. Refusal to relocate to another seat when asked to do so the first time will also result in removal from my classroom and a trip to the office and a referral for disciplinary action.

Other Transgressions: 

Violating the 3 class rules above in any way may also result in removal from my classroom and a trip to the office and a referral for disciplinary action after repeated violations.